The Sun. — London, England, 1864-09-05 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE, TWELVE O'CLOCK. The Money Market now exhibits syraptetn; of stringency, and there seems little likelihood of a return to easier rates for some time to come. The brokers require 8 per cent. as their minimum quo tation even for the b2st short dated paper, and as preparations are now in progress for various pay ments, such as revenue and the other usual liqui dations as the termination of the year approaches, the demand for accommodation has recent:y been more active. With this additional inquiry for ca. pital, much of the recent surplus of the market will, no doubt, soon be worked off, and as a re sumption of shipments of specie to the East has commenced the public foresee very little chance of cheaper money prevailing during the remainder of the present year. There were no bullion operations of importance at the Bank on Saturday. The Masailia, which left yesterday for India and China, conveyed £176,359, principally silver. The Wellesley has arrived from Port Philip, with £94,936. The failure was announced on Saturday of Messrs. Palmer and Co., East India merchants, of Cullum•street, With liabilities amounting to nearly £200,000. The accounts from the manufacturing districts for the past week have in most instances been of a less satisfactory character. At Manchester there has been less demand for both cloths and yarns, although prices remained steady. The woollen trade of Lan cashire, Bradford, and Huddersfield has been rather dull, while at Leicester and Northampton there has been a fair business transacted in most descriptions of hosiery and lace. In the hardware districts of Birmingham, Sheffield, and Wolverhampton, there has been little change of importance to report. A general meeting of shareholders of the Credit Mobilier was held today, and the proposal for paying a dividend and bonus of £2 per share, free of income.tax, and for an amalgamation with the Credit Foncier was carried unanimously. A meeting of the Credit Foncier was also held, and like pro positions for the payment of dividend and for amal gamating with the Credit Mobilier were carried. Two o'cLocK. At Paris this day, according to Mr. Renter's telegram, the French 3 per Cents. were 661. 70c. Heavy. The English Stock Market during the earlier 'part of the day exhibited reactionary symptoms, and a recovery of 1 per cent. was reported. Since then, however, continued sales have forced down prices a lower, and Consols for money and the Bth are 881 88, and for October, 881 1. The New Threes and Reduced Annuities are 86 k ; Exchequer Bills, 20s. die. ; and India Stock is 212. Foreign Stocks have also generally declined, and business is very dull. Turkish 6 per Cents., 1862, are 70 1 ; do. ConsDlides, 50 ; Mexican, 271 28;; do. New, 25i ; Greek, 23 ; Spanish Passive, 301 31i t ; do. Certificates, 13a ; Portuguese, .47k and the Confederate Loan, 75-} 76i In the Railway Share Market there has been very little animation, and prices in most instances have shown less firmness. South Eastern, Brighton, and South Western have each declined 10s. ; and Great Eastern, Metropolitan, and North Eastern (Berwick) ss. The Foreign and Colonial lines remain very 'lull at about former vdluss. Bank and Miscellaneous Shares show very little animation, and quotations exhibit no material change. BRITISH FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK. GOVERNMENT FUNDS. per Cent. Consols a Do Account, Aug. 8 3 per Cent. R e d uce d New 3 per Cent B6/ 6 New 2i per Cent. Jan. 18 94.... Do 5 per Cent., Jan. 1873 Annuities, 30 yrs, expire Bth Jan., 1880 — Do for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885 — Do (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug. 1908 — Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO, 3 & 31 per.Cent.° Do £5OO Do £lOO and £2OO .. Bank England Stk, 5/ per Ct. Do Account.. INDIAN GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. India Stock, 101 per Cent,, April 1874 212 Do Account Do 5 per Cent. July, 1870 Do 4 per Cent., Oct, 1888 Do Certificates Do Account Do 1 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent.) — Do 4/ pei Cent. .... Do Enlaced Paper, 4 per Cent Do 5 per Cent., Jan. 1872 Do 51 per Cent., May, 1879 Do 4 per Cent., Aug. 1866 Do BondsSl,ooo Do under £l,000 FOREIGN FUNDS —ONE O'CLOCK.. Austrian Bonds, 5 per Cent Brazilian 5 per Cen- March. Juno. 20 —.tall a pt •••••• •• Do 41 per Cent., 1852-58-60 Do 1863 .. Buenos Ayres 6 per Cent Do Account.... - Chilian 6 per C en t. Do 4i per en Colombian 6 C per t Cent Cuba, 6 per Cent. Do 5 per Cent. 1864 Danish 3 per Cent., 1825 Do 4 per Cent, 1863 Equador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent Do, Provisonal Land Warrant Egyptian 7 per Cent Do, Second Issue - Greek 5 per Cent., 1824-5, ex-Coupons.. Do Account 24 Do Coupons Do Account Guatemala 5 per Cent. Do 1839 and 1859 Italian b per Cent.(Maremniana Railway) bdexican 3 per Cent Do Account 2288 Do 1864 Do French Scrip, Ex. 25f 200.. Do 6 per Cent. Anglo-French die Ditto Scrip, £23 paid Moorish Imperial 5 per Cent New Granada Do 2 per Cent. Do Deferred Do Land Warrants (Hectares) Do DDeobentures do Au g ., 1866 —, 4 per Ct. April 1864 Peruvian 4i pe r C ent Do 3 per Cent. (Uribarren) • Do 4f per Cent., 1862 1)o Account Portuguese 3 per Cent., 1853 Do Account Do 3 per Cent., 1856, '7, '9, '6O, 62,' 3 Do Account 47} Russian 6 p er C ent., 1822, £ St Do Do 41 per Cent., 1850 .. 1860 Do 3 per Cent 1859 DDo 5 per Cent, 1862 o Anglo-Dutch - SDo Scrip, £lO Pm ardinian 6 per Cent - SDo Account ................... 49 panish 3 per Cent .................. Do Account ...................... -- Do New Deferred .................. Do Account .......... Do Passive Do Account 3lt 'Spanish Cert. of Coup not funded Do Account Sweetish, 4 per Cent I 'o Sc r ip, £5O paid rarki s h 6 per Cent. 1854 Do Account Do 6 per Cent. 1858 Do Account...... Do £lOO Bonds 1/0 6 per Cont. 1862 DDo Account ..................... 70i u £lOO Bonds Do 1863 ~.(1310 Guaranteed, 4 per Cent.. v Dnoezreeo..3 J!e . r . Cant. Do 6 r .... • Pe Uent. 1862 57i Do Account.. Do 6 per Cent .. 186 4 ............. ... . AustriDividepn©s the ab ove payable in London.. Do Account.. an, 5 rC on ent., E. 10 Florins • ........ Belgian 41 per Cent., . Dutch 2f per Cent., Ex. 12 Q u it ...... Do 4 per Cent. Certificatesltalian, . 5 per Cent., 1861, 8a.25 •it7a.n.cs -- Do Account .................... 6Gt French Rentes, 2 per Cent. .......... . Peruvian Dollar Bonds, 41 per Ot-Ex. 4 : Fie, Et:Lenten, 5 per Cent., Ex. 25f ...... -- O O'C LOCK, Colat, , ls Mon ey TWO O'CLOCK, Coiatls Money 1/o A coount...„ .... Do Oct. Liv _erpool Cotton Market —This Dan Market Salo probably 4,000 13%1e4 :hare] Railways. Paid. Closing Business Price. done. 13.14. Wol., and Str. Blythe and Tyne. Bristol and Exeter Caledonian ........ Cork and Bandon C0rnwa11,..,,,,, Do A A gets no di v Do. B till 6p c.p an. has en aid to B. Dublin &e Belfast June. D un.,Perth,&Ab. Juno. Edinburgh & Glasgow. Glasg. and S. Western.! GreatEa,stern, Ord. stki Ditto A stock Ditto East Anglian st G reatNorthof Scotland Great Northern Do A stook Do B do Gt. S. and W. of lrelan Great Westerr,Original Do Str val Pna., sta.:a; Do South Wales Do. West -did. -Oxford Do Newport Do Beret ord I Lancashire & Yorkshire; London and Blackwall I Lon., Bright.,& S. Coas t Lou., Chat., and D over Lon. & North Western Lon. & Soe.th Western, Han., Shef., & Lincoln.; Maryport and Carlisle I Do f shares Metropolitan I Do Birming. dr Derby Mid. Gt. W. of Ireland. Do. shares Mid Kent North British Edin., Perth, & Dundee ;t Nth. Eastern—Berwicx 15 Do, G.N.E. purchase it Do Lecds It Do York it Do Carlisle 15 D. Stccir. et Darling 15 Do do 1855-58 ;5 Do do DM -61 3t North London 10 Do New ..."•• eeeee Do New - , ISM. North Staffordshire .. N. and S. W. Junction. Scottish Central ...—. Soot. N. E., Aber. stock Do Soot. Mid. stook Shrews. and Welohpool Shropshire Union 'South Devon 'South Eastern 84 86 1241 1251 6 7 32 M 16 17 81 91 111 113 15f 476 7 7i 179 131 141 14 127 130 90 92 68/ 69 1154 116 65 67 102 tO3 40 42 1121 112! 05i E 6) 65 C 6 107 /08 1311 1311 101 E 3 54 65 25 26 1051 106 i 1291 9 14 1 i 40i 123 of & 1151 I 112 i i 951 I 107} 131 1 1052 0 881 (South Wales 'S. York. and River Dun I • Staines, Wok.,andWok. Taff Vale.. Doll Do C Vale of Meath Waterford do Kilkenny, West Cornwall W. I.lvtlepoolHar.&R ' 100 I 100 100 100 SHARE MARKETS—This day. ORDINARY SHARES AND STOOKS. BRITISH POSSESSIONS. i Cloning Pall I Price. 58 60 101 102 dig p a. Railways I.tl, nide & St Lawrenc. ioni.,Baroda(t.Cent Gu. 5 per 0ent..... Do. E. Bullalo and Laacliuroi Do. Preferanoe 3uffalo,Brant,&Godricl 1 p. ct. bds. Aug. 1, 1871 Do. do. July 1, 187: 'Jo. do. June 1, 187- Jlcutta.&S.Eastn. (Lin. , ;apeTown t Dock Sari' Demerara 7 p.c. per. pf ii:astn. Bengal gu. 5 p. East Indian. gu. 5 p. c Do. do. Li Ext..... Do. do. H do. .. Grand Trunk of Canathl Do.Egnip. Mort. Bonds 1 charge 6 per cent Do. Ist rret. Bonus.. Do. do. deferred...... Do. 2d Pref. Bonds.. Do. do. deferred...... Do. 3d Pref. stock ... Do: do. deferred.... Do. 4th Pref. stock.. DO: utlndiaPenin. g us..sp.c Do. New Rua. 5 p. 0... qt. South.of India (Lim guaranteed 5 per cent . - Do. 4i per cent Do Gt. W. of Canada Sharer Do. New ... ..... Do. 6 p.o. '73 with't opt. Do. p. 0. do. '77-8 Indian Branch Limited nadras guar., 5 P. 0 . Do. 4# p. o. Extensloi De. 46 d 0.... • • Do. Fifth Extension. 6 p. o. Bndr %lelb. & Hobson's Bay. Do. 7 p. C. Bdortg. Bds. Newßrunswiokzt Candi. Class A. and N.Rl.C'daB po Ist pi bdr sCinde Do. Delhi,.. ri Do. ;• Do. Punjaub Do. Do. .......: , Do. In dus.S t. Flo.) Business don. 101 10111 f 1 71} ILONIAL GOVERNMEN British Columbia, 5 per Cent., Dec. 3 t, 1872.... Do. do. 1883.... C 1877-88 Do. 6 p. c. Feb. & Aug Do. cp. Mar. & Sept. D0..1 p. o. Jan.&July. Do. 5 Inscribed stoat 'ape G.llope, 6 p Do.Ap do Oct. 188( Do. 189( Om Jan. & July, 1891 7eylon, N0v.1878, 6 Ilauritius 6 p.cent.lB73 Do. 1878 Do. 1882 Natal Gov. 6 per cent N.B.Gov. 6 pm. J a.&Jul3 Do. 6p. c.Ap. & Oct. v. S.W. Gov. 5p Du. 5 p. c.,18z1 to 1871 Do. d0.,1888 &upwdsl New Zealand 6 p cent., Nova Scotia Gov. 6 p. a steriinv„ 1875 4ueensland Gcv. 6 p. a i. Aus G6p.c.1878.& up , Tio.Gov. 6 p.c. Ja.&,Jul3 Do. lo 6 p.c. Au.&oot. TH E SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EV 04144, SEPTEMBER 5, 1864 T SECURITIES. 96 99 96 99 98 102 84 86 84 86 104 106 107 109 IC9 111 107 10 110 112 103 105 103 106 101 103 1 1, 1 107 97 100 97 99 98 98 96 96 99 102 ICO 103 106 108 [O9 110 1091 BRITISH MINES. 2 Cambrian Consul. Gold 1 4 1 clifford Amalgamated 8 32 Devcn G. Con.. (Tavist ) 1 580 590 —lest Bassett (Mogan) 30 h 7 69 --East Clogan G old Ltd (East Caradon ..... 1.14.6 27 28 ;East Cam Brea... 3.4.0 71 72 IE. Wlltussel (Tavistk.) 8.13.0 5 51 - !GamASt.Aubyn(Gwen 584 5 7 iGreat South Tolgus 17s 2 2/ jO. Wheal Vor (llelaton 40 27 28 Grenville . Hemel's-Foot ...... 8.12 88 40 Kingston Downs 4.18.0 31 41 Lady Bertha Margaret (Cny Lelant 94 7 9 Marko Valley.. 4 Myndy Iron Ore (Lim ; 2i 14 2 d New Setun 192 75 85 North Downs 3 11 12 N.W 11'1 Basset (Illo_Tan 3.1.0 2 21 North Wheal Crotty Par Consols (... 1 !:t. Blaze)) - Providence ( Uny Lelnt.) 10.0.7 40 42 South Caradon(St.Cleer, 11 100 520 S. earn Brea (Illogan) — S.Wheal Fran. (Mogan ; 18.18.9 42/ 474 Stray Park I Tamar Silv.& Lead Min. - I fin Cron 9 38 19 West Basset (Illogan) l4 8 9 W Cr radon (Liskeard) 9 94 1 0 1 West Seton Wheal Basset (Mogan) 54 92 95 !Wheal Buller(ltedruth) 10 18 20 !Wheal Kitty (U.Lelant) 2.0.6 - IWhealLudeott I Wheal MaryAnn;Llen ) 8 14 15 ;Wheal lieton 531 210 215 Treiawney (Lis.) 7 I 19 21 Wheal Union 4 f 11 2 P 13.11FERENCE SHARES. North - Eastern, Cons. pref., 4 per cent,,' Ditto, 4i per cent red.„9s PREFERENCE SHARES AND STOCKS. Great Eastern 41 per cent. pt., 91 London, Chatham, ac., Metrop. Ext., B 6 per cent., 95 LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS. London and Chatham, 44 per Cent., Ditto, Com. Fund stock, 5 per cent., 971 8 FOREIGN MINES, St. John del Rey (Um.), 35i BANKS. Alliance (lim), 51 11 Ditto, new, 46 Anglo Austrian, 71 Australasia, , ,73l Bank of British Columbia;;l6 Bank of Egypt, 271 Bank of Queensland (Um), 38 Brnk of Wales, lim.. 17/ Brazilian and Portuguese, Bra., 121 British and Californian, lira., 5 Chartered Nier. of India, London, and China, 61 Consolidated Bank, Bra., 1 0 1 Eastern Exchange, European Bank, lira., i 3 1 4 Hindustan, China, and Japan (llin.), 311 21 Ditto, new, i9l Imperial Bank (lim.), 341 Ditto, new, 23 Imperial Bank of china, India,:and Japan, Um., 51 Imperial Ottoman, 1611 International B ink, lira., 181 Land Mortgage Bank of India, lim., 51 5 London and Brazilian aim.), 441 London and County, 731 London, Hamburg, Cont. Exchange, litu. , 13/ London and Westminster, 971 London Joint Stock,l43l 41 3 Mercantile and Exchange, lim., 14 Metropolitan and Provincial Bank, lira., 234 / National Provincial of England, Ditto, ditto. 181 New South Wales, 45 4 South E .stern, limo., 81 Union of Australia, 52 Union of London, 511 21 MISCELLANEOUS. Commercial Union, Insurance, 8 Credit Foncier, 12i 134 • Credit Mobilkr, 12: 13 Discount Corporation,!l9l East India Irrigation and Canal, 5 Egyptian Com. and Trading, Jim., 34 English and Australian Copper, 14 Fore-street Warehouse, Rm., 64 Gen. Credit and Finance of London, lim., 04 1 Home and C .lonial A, ssurance, lim., 6 Hudson's Bay, 16h Imperial Mercantile Credit Asso., lira., 7; International Financial .society, Jim., 9 84 International Laud Credit, lim., 6; Joint Stock Discount, Rm., 0; London Financial Association, lim., 23 Ditto, new, 174 London General Omnibus Company, 3 M tetras Irrigation and Canal, 20 Rio de Janeiro City Improveinents, Jim.. 254 Teiegra(ll Coa3truc. and ALAintentuace, Jlm, , 34 i IN A ' elan rt !alb HER MAJESTY, BALMORAL, Sept. 2. The Queen, accompanied by the Duchess of Saxe- Coburg and Gotha, Princess Helena, and Princess Louise, walked and drove in the grounds of the Castle yesterday morning. In the afternoon her Majesty, with Princess He lena and Princess Beatrice, drove to Abergeldie. The Prince and Princess of Wales honoured the gathering at Braemar with their presence, his royal highness being one of the patrons. SEFT. 3. The Queen, accompanied by their royal high-, nesses the Duchess of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha and Princess Helena, walked and drove in the grounds of the Castle yesterday morning. Her Majesty in the afternoon drove out with the Duchess of Saxe-Coburg and Prince Leopold. The Prince and Princess of Wales dined with her Majesty last night. Their royal highnesses left Abergeldie Castle at ten o'clock this morning to embark at Bronghty Ferry, near Dundee, in her Majesty's steam yacht Osborne, for Copenhagen. His Royal Highness Prince Victor Albert of Wales accompanied his royal parents. As arranged at present, her Majesty the Queen, with the Royal Family, will leave Balmoral on Monday, Oct. 24, and arrive at Windsor Castle on the following day to breakfast. Prince Alfred will return to England in about three weeks, when hie Royal Highness will go to Scotland, and remain at Balmoral until the return of the Court to Windsor. Extensive alterations and embellishments are being made in the private apartments of the Castle. Nearly one hundred workpeople are employed in the various rooms since her Majesty's departure. All the Equerries' apartments are being newly decorated. Carpeting is being laid down.—Cour Journal. His Excellency the Austrian Ambassador left Chandos House on Saturday for Vienna, on leave of absence for a couple of months. The Countess Apponyi goes to Baden. Baden in a fortnight. The Duke of Newcastle is in about the same state of health as when he left town. His grace is very weak and does not take any out-door exercise. The Earl and Countess of Derby, who were on a visit to the Duke of Rutland, at Longshawe Lodge, Derbyshire, from Monday to Friday last, have returned to Knowsley. The noble earl intends to leave KLowsley the week after next for Doncaster, where he will pass the week. The Earl and Countess of Chesterfield have en tertained a succession of visitors at Bretby Park since the commencement of the past week. On Monday, the celebra tion of Lord Stanhopo's birthday, there was a cricket match in front of the hall. Among the guests staying at Bretby during the week were the Earl of Coventiy, the Earl and Countess of Carnarvon, Maria Marchioness of Ailesbury, the Earl Annesley, Mr Payne, Captain Little, Hon, Col, and Mrs Curzon and Miss Anson, Hon. Francis and Mrs Stoner, Hon. Colonel Forester, Mr Forester, Hon. E. C. Leigh, &c. Viscount Palmerston, who came to town on Saturday evening from Wales and Hereford, left yesterday afternoon to join her ladyship at Brockett Hall, Herts. Lord and Lady Poltimore's party last week, dur. ing the races at Exeter, included the Earl of Portsmouth, Sir Stafford and Lady Northcote, Mr A. Seymour, Colo• nel and Mrs Acland, Mr Fleming, Lord and Lady 11- chester, &3. Lady Mary Craven has left Thomas's Hotel, Berkeley-square, for Drakelow, Burton-on-Trent. The Countess Schoavaloff and family have left Thomas's Hotel, Berkeley-square, for the Continent. Colonel the Hon, W. P. and Lady Emma Talbot have arrived at Munich, on their way home from Germany. They intend to make a tour in Switzerland before they re turn to England. Sir Andrew Buchanan, the English Ambassador at Berlin, who is now at Potsdam awaiting the aocouche. merit of the Crown Princess of Prussia, will visit England for a short period after that event, and will proceed to his new post at St Petersburg about the middle of October. In a fortnight from this date Mdlle. Victoire Balfe (late Lady Crampton), the daughter of our great composer, will espouse a grandee of Spain, who unites with his title of duke and a large fortune the best qualities of head and heart.— The Orchestra. A NEW RIDE IN ST. JAMES'S PARK—Altera tions of an extensive character are going on in St. James's-park, with a view to provide a ride for horsemen, such as that of Rottenrow, in Hyde-park. The portion of the park which Mr. Cowper, the Chief Commissioner of Works, has set apart for this purpose extends from Storey's gate to Buckingham Palace, being the whole length of Birdcage-walk, It has hitherto formed part of what is known as the enclosure, which has been devoted to the use of persons who are not fortunate enough to have horses and carriages, and who have extensively availed themselves of it for the purposes of recreation. A space between 30 and 40 feet of ground in depth, along the whole length of the walk, has been dug up, and is now a rudis indigestaque moles. In the course of a few days the railings on the north side of Birdcage-walk will be removed 30 or 40 feet back, and that large and important strip of ground will be cut off from the enclosure. As soon as the necessary arrangements can be made, it will be thrown open as a ride for the exclusive use of the aristocracy. THE PRINCE OF WALES'S SEAT IN NORFOLK. —SANDRINGHAM, Sept. I.—Great preparations are being made for the reception of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales for the shooting season after their return from Denmark. The prospects of the shooting season on the royal estate are very good, as there is a great quantity of partridges, an abundance of pheasants, and every variety of game. The, very dry season has of course been very favourable tolgame preserving, and, poach ing being almost unknown here, the principal enemy which the keepers have had has been Master Reynard, a good supply of foxes being preserved by the directions of the prince. The alterations and improvement which have been and are being made under the direction of Mr Carmichael, the resident steward, are very marked, and have already completely changed the aspect of the estate. The plantations, which had become completely overgrown and choked with rank underwood have been thinned, por tions of the park have been raised and planted, and new and excellent roads made. A new and commodious house has been provided within the park for the head keeper, and on the table land before it have been constructed 13 large pheasantries, each being about fifty feet square, all connected, and forming one large and compact block. The kitchen garden, which has been laid out, and is to supply the royal table with fruit and vegetables throughout the year, comprises 15 acres of land, 7 of which are completely enclosed with brick walls, that on the north side being of great height, and parallel with it are six large grape conserva tories. Tho new labourers' dwellings each of which is pro vided with three sleeping apartments, approach completion, and others are to be commenced. All the old cottages have been repaired, painted, and ingrained. The royal stables have been still further extended, so as to show uniformity of appearance, and afford sufficient accommodation for his royal highness's stud. The comptroller's house, which is really a very beautiful mansion, situated in the park to the south-west of the hall, is completed. A model of Sandring ham Hall has been constructed according to the plan of Mr Humbert, and if they are carried out a splendid palace will supersede the present modest mansion of Sandringham House. Nothing has as yet been decided in the matter The beautiful Norwich gates and their accompaniments are on the point of completion—the decorator being now engaged in putting the finishing touch to them. The Home Farm falls into the hands of the Prince of Wales at Michaelmas. THE GAME SEASON IN THE EAST.—The game season commenced under favourable auspices ou Thurs day, in the partridge district of Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, and Lincolnshire. The weather was beautifully fine, the air fresh and invigorating, and it may emphatically be said to have been a " glorious first." Game is considered plentiful, although in some localities partridges have been picked up dead from the effects of the drought. In conse quence of the turnips having attained but a meagre deve lopment, while the birds are very strong and wild, sports men have had to put forth active exertions in order to make up good tags. In the neighbourhood of Stamford many gentlemen were on the alert shortly after 4 a.m. THE HARVEST IN CUMBERLAND.—Harvesting is now general in the county of Cumberland, even in the localities that are usually late. The fine weather of the past few weeks has brought the grain well forward, and much is already safe " under thack and rape." The wheat crop is generally spoken of as an average crop ; bar ley and eats have done well in most places. Turnips have been greatly benefi tted by recent rains, and the pastures which in many cases had been quite burnt, up by the drought, are looking better, SINGULAR. CASE OF SUPPOSED INFANTICIDE.— Yesterday morning about 6 o'clock, two females called at a coffeehouse at the Market-head, Woolwich, and partook of refreshments, after which one of the women was, at her request, allowed to go up-stairs. Shortly afterwards both parties left the house in a hurried manner, and in conse quence of some suspicious circumstances a search was made, which resulted in the discovery of the body of a newly-born infant secreted in the apartment which the women referred to was allowed to enter, The police were immediately in formed and pursuit was made, but neFllier of the females have yet been apprehended. all 100 (100 i 10 2 0 1 all . 100 100 100 100 100 100 84 65 93 04 86 87 9 10 74 8i c 123 126 14p 75 77 11 Hi 126 130 57 59 14 til 831 84 101 103 7 8 ICO 165 5 6 t 2 3 r, 101 103 34 30 7i 8i 75 80 75 £0 75 80 97 93 94 98 102 104 101 1f , 2 la £Ol 191 20} 19 2;) 91 03 71 73 60 63 65 67 55 67 48 5:, 43 45 27 29 26 28 102 103 par iI, 99 101 94 10 10! 101 r; 89 91 82 84 f d fn 994 100. • 93 05 89 91 58 CO R 80 8! 9911 IbOi 99,E 160,y, id par I 9l 100 95 97 SPIRIT Or TEE PUBLIC JOURNALS THE " LONDON REVIEW" ON ME HOPLEY'S CARE FOR THE STATE OF Mass HOPLEY'S SOUL,--MT Hopley has appealed from a British jury to the British public at large, in a pamphlet entitled "A Cry for Justice, and for the Souls of my Wife and Children." Whether the meaning of the last portion of the title be that Mrs Hopley is endanger ing her eternal welfare by taking refuge from her husband upon the Continent, or that she has already endangered it by giving evidence against Mr Hopley in the Divorce Court, may be a matter of debate. It is sufficient to eay that Mrs Hopley's course makes Mr Hopley very anxious for her immortal soul. There are certain natures with whom a quarrel is sure to take this theological shape. In eome cases, and in some mouths, blessing becomes bitterer and more effective than cursing itself; and to propose to pray for the other side is the last and most terrible arrow from the quiver of an angry controversialist. "Charity, my dear," said the injured Mr Pecksniff, "when I take my bedroom candlestick, remind me more particularly to pray for Mr Martin Chuzzlewit." There are some nymphs, and some male angels, too, in whose " orisons" all their neigh bours' sins aro sure to be " remembered ;" and whose devo tional exercises partake not so much of the character of a Litany as of a Commination Service. It would, perhaps, be refusing Mr Hopley that justice for which, with many gushes of religious expostulation, he appeals, if we were to put down to hypocrisy his ostentatious anxiety for the spiritual condition of those who have offended him. lie is, doubtless, sincere in the belief that he is an ill-used man. But his missionary efforts to im• prove the souls of his pupils end his family have been attended hitherto with such lamentable results, that when, after all his trials, the m issionary vein crops up again as luxuriant as over, it is perhaps na tural for Mrs. Hopley and her relatives to feel alarmed. Similar phenomena preceded the death of the unhappy boy Chancellor, and accompanied the moulding by which Mrs. Hopley was to be made fit to be the mother of juvenile Hopleys. If Mr. Hopley had chastised his unhappy wife out of ill temper and hot blood, there might be some hopes that his long imprisonment might have taught him the necessity of domestic self-control ; but when we discover that all was part and parcel of a pious curriculum, and that Mr. Hopley's victims have been victims rather of his dee sire to reform his fellow-creatures than of any natural ferocity, the domestic future of the Hopley household looks very dark indeed. The charge made against the gentle man in question by his wife and by the public is not that he is a Quilp; nor does Mr. Hopley meet the issue by affirming, with some appearance of truth, that ho is far from being a monster in human shape. Nobody says that he is a monster. What is alleged against him is that he carries concern for his fellow-creatures to the verge of mo nomania, and that he polishes and brightens the Christian character of those about him in a way that seriously affects their physical health and comfort. That ho has begun again, after so serious a warning, to discuss Mrs Hopley's soul, is, then, not a reassuring symptom, By this time, very possibly Mrs Hopley trembles at the very mention of her soul at all, and when she learns from her secure retreat that Mr. Replay has been thinking over her immortal pro spects, she will feel like the emancipated slave who dreamed of the cracking of his master's thong. In order to vindicate himself, and partly doubtless in order to expose the true nature of the religious precipice over which Mrs Hopley's soul is balancing itself, Mr Hopley prints at considerable length the letters which his wife wrote to him during his confinement, The taste of pub-• lishing such documents is most questionable, but the ex citement under which he is evidently labouring and the obvious eharatter and mental training of the man render it unnecessary to discuss his conduct from an asthestio point of view. The panegyrics be himself bestows upon his wife's correspondence for refinement and delicacy are pro bably sincere and certainly deserved. No one can peruse her effusions without a strong feeling of sympathy for the woman who is their author. If it be true (and we see DO reason to believe the contrary) that Mr Hopley found his wife when he married her an ignorant and half-educated girl, and has made her an accomplished and clever woman, the fact says nothing for him that might not be conceded by his severest critics. From the fiery ordeal which she entered as a raw young lady Mrs Hopley has emerged a cultivated wife and mother; but, for all that, the process which has been so intellectually successful may have been physical and mental anguish. The great poet who tells us the discipline of pain with which it pleased Heaven to try a lady of his acquaintance, winds up with the funeral remark— " The seint survived it, but the woman died." It is possible that Mrs Hopley's virtue in like manner increased, pari passe, with her misery; but the principle which produces hot-house matronly graces at such a cost would justify the worst enormities of a Grand Inquisitor. If it be lawful to do God service at the risk of cruelty to man, there is no form of torture that may not logically be supported. The instinct that leads to such excesses, either in public or in private life, may be termed the peda gogue instinct in its worst and most dangerous form. It is an instinct which has done more to retard progress than any other which can be named; and wheel it breaks out violently in private has led men, before now, to she gallows. The feminine devotion and warmth of heart which are conspicuous throughout the whole of Mrs Hopley's &sue spondence, do not disprove what the jury have asserted- - that Mr Hopley has been cruel; it only confirms their fur ther admission, that his cruelty has been unfortunately condoned. It is by no means a rare spectacle ,to see a woman, in the hey. day of youth and imagination, attracted rather than repelled by harshness. The annals of the police-courts show that many a woman retains her infatuation for some drunken ruffian, who beats her and 111 uses her from day to day—and Mr Hopley has posssibly mental qualities sufficient to fascinate the fancy even of a frightened and ill-treated wife. Still less can such a cor respondence be taken to rebut the accusation of original cruelty, when the circumstances are considered under which it was penned. Mr Hopley was at the time in prison, and both he and his wife well kne w t h at he was an outcast from society. If ever a noble an d generous woman the Divorce Court, would feel inclined to condone her inj uries, it would be when she felt the loneliness and misery of the man who had been her tyrant. Mrs Hopley in with her own letters before her, solemnly swore, neverthe• less, that she had been cruelly dealt with. The jury, to a man, believed her. Mr Hopley replies that she has perjured herself. He must be insane not to perceive that the grace and tenderness of the letters which he hi mse lf pro d uces f rom h e r, are the strongest pos sible argument against his assertion. It is far easier to be lieve that the w oman w h o wro t e them was, in spite of her love ;and affection, the worn and illused companion of a monomaniac that to believe her capable of having given false and fraudulent testimony for the purpose of ruining an innocent and virtuous husband. Nor was his wife's tes timony unsupported. Serv a nt s w ere called to corroborate her in important particulars; and though Mr . Hopley in sinuates that their character was no t of the best description the only alternative theory to that of his o w n guilt is the theory of ft domestic conspiracy between his who, his wife's fami'y, and his own household. The fact tha t none of his pu pils were privy to any of the conduct of which he was acc used goes for very little. The strictest co njugal discip.hen nobody li nar ian would not be likely to punish his wife, so to spe a k, u pon parade, and in the presence of a re g i ment of boys. E v en Mr. Quilp did not pinch Mrs. Q uil p when strangers were looking on. He chose quiet moments,r.iio Hopley is a man observed him, an d mad e her life a burden to h er w i t h out conventionalities. v i hoo l as t e in v g a d n e ii c y ent anddignitywould preserve w u him from the formr o of andhouse only if, 0 g as e i ril seems probable, his run mad, he pro bably inflicts unh a pp iness on those under his iron rule upon a strictly d ecorous s y stem. If eve wished for an instance of the truth, that men who commit crimes are not wholly bad, wo do not know whither we could better turn than in the case of such a man. Mr. Hopley with tears protests that he is not a demon, or a butcher, or a murderer. The social philanthropist knows well that those who draw upon themselves the indignant censures of society are rarely demons. There is often some good in them, as in Mr IlePley, coupled with a monstrous want of self.contrel in One direction, which poisons their whole nature, and ruins their whole life. The consciousness of some good intentions and some noble ambitions is a possession I which Mr Hopley shares with not a few of the grebtest tyrants of history. It is not the pleasure of any generous mind to trample on a fallen man, or to outrage even Mr Hopley by comparisons which would bo insulting and unjust. It is quite enough to say that his pamphlet by no means makes us regret that Mrs Hopley has escaped from his society. His self-delu sions are probably genuine, but they amount to disease. In carrying out his vain and inflexible plans he has done much harm and caused much unhappi ness • , and his tone and temper render it probable that in his obstinate blind ness to his own defects, he may cause still more unhappi ness before he dies. THE (, EXAMINER ON Two SOVEREIGNS AT VIENNA. —The Germans have certainly reason to be proud. They have outrun all other people for the moment, and step for ward as the most prominent at least of the European world, The obstinacy and wilfulness of the Americans, their turn for bloodshed too, certainly aro not equalled by Prussia. But in the old world, what 18 talked of but Germany ? Russia seems to be under an eclipse. Italy is unobtrusive; the French Emperor running unlucky France up to her ears in debt; England quietly minding her own business. Other nations are asking what the Germans will next be at, Wiil they reconquer Lombardy or claim Alsen ? That so powerful an alliance should limit itself to the acqui sition of the poor little province of Schleswig is not an adequate result. The Emperor of Austria and the King of Prussia have met at Vienna. Now the anxiety is 'great to know who is to be the nclt enemy, and where lies the prey whose turn it is to be devalued. Their last joint meal, the victim of this summer, has, however, yet to be devoured and digested ; and it was precisely to rub beaks over this carcase that the Eagles of Prussia and Austria were gathered toge ther. The meeting was like fire and water. As is evident from the explosion of hostility which burst forth immediately from the press of Vienna and that of Berlin. It is remark able how these organs, mere or less, of the two peoples and the tweGoverntnents, have exchanged their traditional tone. So much so, that to look merely at the papers, one at Vienna might fancy himself in Berlin, and Berlin has the air of Vienna. Berlin used to be for progress, and given to sneer at the stationary and sluggish nature of Vienna. Now the Berlin writers have all steeped their pens in Napoleonic ink, and are giving vent to doctrines completely of the French Imperialist school. The spirit of Herr von Bismark might have inspired M. Persigny's speech of the other day • But von Bismark is, it seems, too Imperialist for the Court of the old Cas3ars. He finds no one there to assent to his doctrine, save Count Rechberg. And even he smiles at Bismark's soldatesque diatribes against Constitutionalists Bismark and the Prussian organs denounce all Liberals as democrats. Every peison and every idea, that is in oppo sition to him, he stigmatises as democrat. And he no doubt treats Schmerling himself as a democrat quite as dangerous as Waldeck. However, the official prints of Berlin have not arrived at a denunciation of all Austria as democratic • Their present target is Schleswig-Holstein. Eight or ten months ago the people of the Dachies were objects of popu lar sympathy and admiration to the Prussians, even to Prussian officials. Now they are treated as mere demo rats, bent on anarchy, and absurdly given to independence. According to the sound Prussian version, the only right thinking and well-behaved portion of the population are the Danish peasants; for the German traders of the Schleswig towns are, it seems, deplorable radicals, who, if endowed with freedom, would offer a worse example to Germany than the Danes themselves. On this political plea, much insisted on at Vienna, Bismark would keep military posses sion of the Duchies, which he declares would be utterly lost to Conservative Government if Duke Frederick were in stalled. Bismark abhors the Duke far more than he ever abhorred Christian, and he abhors still more the men who surround Duke Frederick, and who were more or less mixed up with, and remain the friends of, the great movement of 1848. In however strong language this may have been re presented by Bismark at Vienna, it still did not seem to prove to the Austrians that either Prussia should keep pos session of the Duchies or that she should hand them over to an obedient nominee. Austria insists that Germany, and not Austria or Prussia, should profit by her conquests. Prussia had proposed to oust the Federal Commission from Holstein, Austria objected, and the Federal Commission remains, in stead of the interim, which Prussia recommended. More over, Austria considered that Prussia had made an unfair and unwarrantable choice in Scheele Plessen to defend at the Conference the pecuniary interests of the Duchies. Scheele Plessen was one of the nobles of the Duchies, who professed attachment to the reigning power of Denmark, yet headed the opposition in the Chamber against Denmark, and thus upset the object of their attachment. Scheele Plessen would govern the Duchies by a senate and without a duke, who might interfere with the aristocracy and its pretensions. He is, therefore, beloved of Bismark. But the Austrian Government, more liberal, insisted that Reincke, the .Altona banker, a truly liberal and popular Holsteiner, who had been one of the deputation to England, should be joined with Scheele Plessen to represent sincerely and essentially the great commercial and pecuniary interests of the duchy to which Altona belongs. A knowledge of these circumstances must add to Austria's character and influence, and thereby induce the Emperor not to hearken to Bismark's wild advice. It is well known that this Minis ter would have seized and appropriated the Duchies had the King, his master, consented, and this he would still do, even at the risk of a quarrel with Austria, could he obtain permission. The King, however, is some check upon his Minister's foreign policy, althohgh in domestic matters, and in the virtual abolition of representative Government in Prussia, King William seems to have given carte blanche to the Prussian Strafford. THE " SPECTATOR" ON CAPT. MAYNE REID AS THE LAWGIVER OF CROQUET,—AII devotees of croquet must be satisfied with the progress made in the eu/tas of their favourite game during the present year. For the last three years and more the game has gene on progressing every day in popular favour, and gradually fascinating even the most obdurate opponents—for croquet, like all other good movements, has had no small amount of opposition to con tend with. It was soon found that the direct mode of attack must be abandoned, and in a very short time after the introduction of the game there were comparatively few left who openly dared to assail it, while the majority of mal contents had to console themselves by malignant insinua tions and disparaging whisperings. It soon became clear that a great want had been supplied—that of an out-door game of skill and variety in which ladies could join sufficiently simple for anybody to become a moderately good player, and yet capable under favourable circum stances of being carried to a point requiring almost as much precision and delicacay of play as billiards itself. But it is only within the last month that croquet has gained a crowning triumph. The majesty of the law has been invoked, and no less a personage than a N . ice- Chancellor has been occupied in determining to what extent the rules of the game are private or public property. It has been the great drawback to the full development of the game ever since its original establishment that no consistent and complete code of laws was in existence. All the toy makers who seized upon the game at the first as the means of making exorbitant profits by the sale of very ornamental but too often excessively unsuitable implements, issued brief directions for play with their sets, but these were all insufficient and generally worse than useless. The conse quence was that even if the players on any particular lawn succeeded in agreeing upon the fundamental conditions of the game,questions of construction and interpretation were continually arising during the game which it was impossible to leave unsettled without depriving the game of its main e i ee nents of interest. Even if any community of friends ma nager to settle a working code of rules amongst themselves, the estabi,;shment of the district croquet clubs now so widely in progress was seriously hindered, as it was next to im possible that a match could be carried on between any two clubs in which some difference of practice or insoluble diffi salty did not arise. I.:yerybody was calling for a code of laws, which might be fain'y expected to meet with general acceptation, would provide .tor every situation that could arise, and w ould furnish croq e eet-players with a settled vocabulary of technical expreesion: 9 9 or, to use a shorter and more expressive phrase, ' 6 crovot slan g. " Now it appears from the proceedings in Chanct:ry, to which we have referred, that this great desideratum of a croquet playing generatton had struck Captain Mayne Reid some twelve months or more ago, and with chat aoterietio energy ho immediately devoted himself to the ta'k of supplying the want. He seams to have entered ucon his task with all the keenness and perseverance of one of his own Indian heroes on a war trial, and during four months he coupled himself in studying all possible combinations and contingencies that can arise, as well as the best croquet materials and other t necessaries of the game. After mature deliberation he formulated his experience in the shape of 126 distinct rules, with explana tory footnotes, besides a vocabulary of " slang" and many general remarks, all Of his own composition, and published the collection towards the close of last year. The coda bore the practical test of play, sail before long naturally came into extensive use amongst croqu.:4-players. Captain Mayne Reid was naturally desirous of secn:ing the credit due to himself for his arduous labours, and be wassurprised the other day on taking up a work entitled, ."` The Rules of Croquet, revised by an old hand," to find that of t-t'e ninety three rules contained in it the majority were simply t.he re sults of his own experience and ingenuity much abbreviate' d but occasionally transcribed literally by the compiler or "reviser," and sold by him at the price of sixpence, while that of his own work was half-a-crown. Upon inquiry he found the " Old Hand " had some mysterious connection with the manufacturer of certain pat erns and designs of croquaet is, known as the Cassiobury set, and on application to the publisher whose name appeared to the " Old Hand's " work it came out that the "Old Hand " himself was in reality not to be sought for very far from Cassiobury—that the Earl of Essex was the individual who had thus sought an aristocratic short cut to learning in the laws and practice of croquet. Now it seems from this that our great peers are far from being the mere useless drones in the hive that certain classes would have us believe. Lord Essex, being a croquet-player, and also a proprietor of timber, thought that he might ad vantageously turn his knowledge of the former to business account as well as the latter, so he accordingly set up in life as croquet manufacturer as well as peer. Of course the good points of crequaerie with a handle to its name were rapidly seen by an impressionable British public, and Lord Essex doubtless turned many an honest penny by his first venture in business life. But unfortunately he thought it essential to the completeness of the Cassiobury set that it should be accompanied by a code of laws, and by a strange coincidence those which he adopted were in numerous in stances verbally identical with those of Capt. Mayne Reid. The latter not seeing why Lord Essex, whether in his capa city of peer or manufacturer, or under his incognito of " An Old Hand," should be entitled to the results of other people's work, demanded an explanation and the withdrawal of the work. Lord Essex being, as he now alleges, igno rant of the extent to which the piracy had been carried, re fused either, and Captain Reid then had recourse to Vice- Chancellor Kindersley, and Lord Essex, who apparently became aware how untenable his ease really was, agreed on Friday last to withdraw the book, to destroy all copies re maining unsold, to pay Captain Mayne Reid £125 as com pensation, and also to pay all costs of the suit—a result which must materially disturb the proportions of the new manufacturer's balance-sheet for his first year. Lord Essex has scarcely yet attained a degree of circumspection and acuteness in business commensurate with the ingenuity of his operations. He is now at least too old a hand to allow a friend to compile a book of croquet rules without his own superintendence. There were no pre-existing laws of croquet, and Captain Mayne Reid's work was to all intents and purposes an original composition,the result of consider able exertion and thought, and no one can complain be cause he has been (protected in reaping the fruit of Lis labours, even though a slight check has been inflicted upon the business enterprise of a noble Earl. THE " SATURDAY REVIEW" ON THE PENALTIES OF Groin VI peculiar development which hero. wor ship has recently taken in this country makes it very de sirable that people in exalted positions should not be afli:cted with the misfortune of shyness. In America, popular good will has to be conciliated by direct personal appearance before the people, and to a great ex tent by contact with them. " Going on the stump," and " the pump-handle movement," are the two tributes paid in the land of freedom to the supremacy of popular principles. With us matters are not quite so bad, although they are getting worse every year. The oratorical treadmill upon which our chief states men have to go in the season of the year when they are supposed to take a holiday is of itself a sufficient warning to ambition; and, from the celebrated " Give us your paw young'un" story, it is evident that when Lord Palmerston visits a go-ahead town like Bradford, he thinks that something of the Yankee pump-handle must be introduced. But it is pictorially that our principal statesmen are chiefly doomed to suffer. The enormous facilities for multiplying likenesses which have been created by modern discovery are in perpetual requisi tion to introduce the ruler the ruled. One of the newest, and at the same time one of the most cruel, devices of this kind is one that has been conceived by an enterprising tailor for the purpose of bringing the peculiar cut of his garments before the public eye. Eighteen victims of more or less dis tinction are selected, and portraits of them are circulated wearing 18 of the habiliments upon which the ingenious tradesman chiefly prides himself. The Queen serves as an advertising block for a Basque habit, and the form of the the Princess Alexandra is devoted to displaying the elegant proportions of the swallow-tail. Lord Palmerston figures in a neglige3 suit, Lord Russell is selected as the fittest model for exhibiting the merits of a " riding suit," Lord Derby wears the honours of a "Chesterfield overcoat," and Mr Disraeli, from some ethnological confusion in the mind of the artist which it is difficult to trace, appears as the ideal wearer of the' "Inverness cape.'' But the chief sufferings of our public men are from the new art of photography. Since the cheap carte de visite came into fashion, and still more since it became the correct thing to have a carte de visite album on everybody's table, the furious demand of the public for likenesses to fill these albums has beet quite uncontrollable, and the consequent labour thrown on photographers and their sitters has been very great. There is no need to pity the photographers, for they are well paid for their labours, and the more furious the de mand becomes the better they will like it. But the Cabinet Minister's case is a harder one. There are three principal duties which attach to his eminent position. He has to manage his department,to attend in his place in Parliament, and to sit for his carte de visite. The first two duties are considered in the estimates; but the last, and (upon a hot day) the heaviest, has to be performed gratuitously. Of course it is necessary, in so many sittings. to contrive a little variety, and the ingenuity which must be brought to bear to attain this end cannot but be very exhausting. The Bishop of Oxford, who, in this as in other matters, loves to accumu late labour, is photographed as often as a Cabinet Minister, is satisfied with striking out as many attitudes in relation to a curtain and a pillar, as the restricted number of human limbs will permit. But the changes which can be rung upon this combination are necessarily limited. You cannot do much with a pillar except lean upon it, and, unless you stand in front of a curtain, you can do nothing else with it except get it between your legs, Mr Gladstone has pre ferred the more fertile reseurce of different changes of dress and with no little ingenuity he has made them symbolise the particular phase of political existence through which he happens to be passing. When he was the great Finance Minister carrying out the great treaty, he presented himself to the photograper in the official dress of a Chancellor of the• Exehequer. But finance has fallen a little into the background of late. Other aspirations have taken the place of those of the pure financier; other claims to a possible Premiership than those which rest upon the suffrages of the trading community are being sedulously cultivated. Accordingly, Mr Gladstone presents himself before the lens in the Court-dress of a Privy Councillor. It is not a pretty dress. On the contrary, a profane stranger, unacquainted with its sacred associations, would describe it. as something between the dresses of a postilion and a buf foon. It is, in fact, rather an extreme specimen of the taste which governs the selection of most of our Court cos tumes. It required some courage in a grave statesman to have himself immortalised in white kerseymere shorts; but no doubt Mr Gladstone felt that the dress, though ugly, was symbolical of a present policy, and prophetic of a bril liant future. But it is upon Lord Palmerston that the chief burden of the Administration falls in the photographic as in every other department of Ministerial duty. We are informed by the journals most in his confidence that, at the end of July last, he honoured the Stereoscopic Com pany with a sitting at which no less than four dozen negatives were taken. There are very few people who are not able, from their own recollections, to illustrate the amount of endurance which this announcement reveals. The retreat of a photographer, built at the top of a tall house, roofed in with glass like a hot-house and concentrating the rays of the sun almost with the force of a burning glass, is probably the hottest place of confine ment known to human suffering on this side of Calcutta. Allowing two minutes and a half to each negative—and very few sitters escape from the oven at half so cheap a rate—the Primo Minister must have undergone at least a good two hours' thorough baking, under the full power of a July sun, in his anxiety to "spread his likeness broad cast o'er the land," When ho took office, he probably never calculated on labour such as these. The Treasury Bench does not look comfortable, and there must be a monotony in the sensation it communicates when you have to sit on it for nine or ten hours a day. But it must be pleasant, and even luxurious, compared to a protracted session in a photographer's bakery. Listening to his own colleague, Mr Denman, upon the case of the Baron de Bode, is usually supposed to have been the severest trial to which even the veteran Prime Minister and the well-seasoned officials of the house wore ever exposed; but it must have been an exciting pas time compared to posing for two hours before a lens in a pothouse. It cannot be said that all this labour has pro duced much variety in the resulting portraits. The object of them all is much the same as the object of the nume roue speeches which the Premier has spent the month of August in making. Both equally serve the purpose of advertising unabated juvenility to the world, This ob ject the photographs undoubtedly effect for the positions are carefully selected, and great vigour of posture, and some vivacity of expression, is preserved. No one would gather from them that our Prime Minister was a joker of jokes, or that he owes much of his continued success to the dexterity with which he deadens the thrust of an attack by shielding himself behind a defence of particu larly bad chaff. The faoe is anything but merry or cheer - ful. It is the weary face of one who has been much in oourts, and knows how to go resignedly through any amount of ennui. In some, probably those which came early in the portentous sitting, there is an expression of business-like attention, as though the sitter was till fresh, and could fancy himself transacting his ordinary o fii,fial duties. Some even look contemptuous, and half smilit;3, as though he enjoyed the absurdity of the position. But as the series goes on, the countenance becomes more and more ,dead, the eyes more and more destitute of ex pression, as though his force were yielding to the op pressive influences of the hour. At length this change of feature culminates in one which must evidently have been the last of the Aeries, and which is deeply pathetic. It bears the lineamental of a man heroically struggling, but on the point of giving way. The powers of endurance have failed at last. It seems to say, in tones of despairing remonstranCe, "I am but a man of 80, after all; you have put me through what half my colleagues would have fainted under—how can you expect me to stand quite still and wear a tranquil expression of countenance for the 48th picture'?" A copy of the carte ought tu n otobe presented to all promising undergraduate s in eitahrenrin "va:sity who are likely to take to pol itics, as a w g what successful statesmen have to go through. SHIPPING--:TIUS DAY• inci, at Noon, S,W, ; s t rong L OND ON, oap.' breeze and fine, (BY MAO ETIC TELEGRAPH.) _ _ G I OVESEND, Monday Morning. Arrived, Sept. 4.--America, from Punta Arenas; Main, from St. Brieux, Arrived, Sept. s.—Verwesselint,:. from Gothenburg ; Ebenezer, from Cronstadt. Sailed, Sept. s. —Seine, steamer, for ;3. oulogne; Cissy, for Shanghai. DEAL, Monday 2 4 (7 1 :1ing. Passed, Sept. 4.—Prohesa, for baloombe ; A rth. cus, for Adelaide; Neva for Halifax—all from London. Passed, Sept. s.—Star of Erin, and Anglo-Indian, 81147, from Calcutta; Agra, from Rangoon—all for London. THE AMENITIES OF CONTROVERSY." It is very painful," says the Church .Review, "to have to publish the following letter ; but in a case in which the principle of maintaining intact the law of the Church in respect to holy matrimony is directly involved, we cannot hesitate :—' East Brent, Weston-super-Mare, Aug. 20. — My dear Lord,—Haviug been constrained to withdraw my name from the list of vice-presidents of the Church Con gress, proposed to be held at Bristol in October next, and to decline to take any part in the proceedings of the Congress, I feel that it is due to others, as to myself, to state the ground upon which T have done this, and I know of no way so fitting as that of a letter addressed to yourself, as president, and afterwards made public. The Dean of Bristol, whose name appears on the list of vice presidents, has placed himself in a position which I believe to be irreconcileablo with the law of the Church of England, though it be not only allowed but sanctioned by the law of the land. Some of my brethren may regard that position as doubtful only; it appears to me to be ascertained. Others may be content that the law of the Church should be is all respects subor dinated to the law of the land: I am not so content. It appears to me that when the laws conflict, as we must be prepared to see them conflict from time to time—it is one thing to bear the distress and the trial patiently, and to hope and pray for better times ; it is quite another thing to deal with the Church's law as with what has, on that account, ceased to be any longer a rule of life. Undo: those circum stances I have withdrawn my name ; having special regard to . the fact that the point at issue in this painful matter is whether the law of the Chuich is to be regarded by Church men as of no authority as soon as it ceases t o be in accord. ance with the law of the land, or w hether it is to b 3 re garded as having, under such cond►tions, the same binding authority as before. I:, appears to me that a Church Con gress, of which the Dean of Bristol is vice •president, does, in effect, affirm the first of these two positions and deny the last; and 1 respectfully submit that it is as little by depre ciation or disparagement of the Church's law as by undue exaltation of it that we can hope to preserve unimpaired, and for the go©d of all, the great blessings of Church and State. Believe me, my dear Lord, very truly and faithfully yam's, GEoRGE A, DESISON,—Thu Lord Bishop of Uloces ter and 13ristol1' SPORTING INT:ILLIGENCE---Tllis Day, CITY BET:TING—Tins DAT. B'r. LEGER. 5 to 2 agst General Peel (taken) 3 to 1 agat Blair A.thol (offered) 9 to 2 apt Miner (taken) 15 to 1 agst Baragah (taken) 100 to 6 aget Master Richard (taken) 20 to 1 agst Ely (offered) 25 to 1 aget Knight of Snowdon (taken) 40 to 1 agat Claremont (taken) 30 to 1 agat Breeze (offered) 20 to 1 agst Cambuscan (taken) LEAMINGTON STARES. 3 to 1 agst Bradamante (taken) 6 to 1 agst Toneriffe (taken) 6 to 1 agst Catch 'cm Alive (taken) 7 to 1 agst Revolver (taken) 7 to 1 agst Despair (taken) Friendless and Fallen. TO y r o ta u E f a. E 7 D o t u T r o m a o ‘ F y t T h u aE SUN small space in yonr columns (just now. I presume there is less pressure) to plead the cause of those who cannot ordinarily ask help for themselves, viz., friendless and fallen females? By th© first class are meant those who have maintained their moral integrity, but through adverse circumstances are placid in great danger; the second, those who have fallen prey to the vile arts of the betrayer, an d are consequently thrust out of the pale o f society to drift down to misery, temporal and eternal, unless rescued by some friendly hand. Nor is this plea urged on behalf of those belonging by birth to any particular country or pro fessing any particular creed. All are alike welcome. The committee of the Londoc Female Preventive and Reformatory Institution have resolved to seek to do good to poor females upon the broadest possi• ble basis, seeking to save all as far as their funds would permit ; and out of the 1,300 poor creatures already received into the Homes, nearly every vil lage and town in the United Kingdom has supplied a subject, as well as the continent of Europe, Africa, Asia, and America. And, thank (loci, of those received about three-fourths have been permanently reclaimed. The committee seek the accomplishment of their mission in five distinot Homes, where the inmates are fed, lodged, clothed, and instructed free of all charge to them. When all these Homes are full, 3iooo meals per week hove to be provided for the support of inmates; and for this one expense, as well as every other, the commit tee are ab3olutely dependent upon daily voluntary con tributions. When the necessary period of proba tion expires, they are provided with suitable situations, restored to their friends, or assisted to emigrate. Oh, sir, if your space permitted, I could present to your readers some painfully interesting facts, gathered during my thirteen years' labours in this department of Christian philanthropy. How ever, there is one which I must allude to. I have said 1,300 have been admitted. This is cheering ; but I have been compelled to refuse 600 applications a year, simply for want of larger funds. What be comes of these rejected ones? The echo says, What? And I would that I could make it ring in the ears of every adult in the land, cautioning our often too confiding maidens, compelling our young men to realise their duty to protect the weaker sex rather to betray them, or supinely leave the betrayed to their unhappy fate ; and every parent to throw around their daughters all the protection that is pos sible, in order to shield them while passing through the critical period of youth. I would still further urge this plea by reminding the reader of a fact Patent to all, viz., that of necessity tens of thou• sands of young women are compelled by the force of circumstances to leave their homes in remote country districts and seek a living by doe mastic servitude or otherwise in London, far away from natural protection and sympathy, and often to confront with fierce and subtle temptation by which many fall, more sinned against than sinning ; and furthermore, not a few, when so overtaken, would be for ever lost but for the efforts of the so ciety for which I plead. In asking for contribu tions, I solicit small sums as well as large, the poor widow's mite as well as the rich man's cheque. It is a blessed work of mercy, in which all are invited to join according to their ability, by remitting postage.stamps, poste office orders, &e. I would also recommend persons interested to send for a copy of the prospectus of the society, which gives an epitome of the work done.—l am, Sir, your obedient servant, 200, Euston-road, London, N. W. E. Thomas, Secretary. Bankers.—Messrs. Bosanquet and Co., 73, Lom bard-street, E. C. The Price of Gold. The quotation of gold at Paris is about 21 per mine pm., and the short exchange on London is 25.271 per £1 sterling. On comparing these rates with the English Mint price of La 17s. 101 d. per ounce for standard gold, it appears that gold is nearly 2-ICths per cent. dearer in London than in Paris. By advic:s from Hamburg the price of gold is 425 per mark and the short exchange on London is 13.5 k per Xi stErlin_ Standard gold at the English Mint price is, therefore, 2-Iteths per cent. dearer in London than in Hamburg. The course of exchange at New York on London for bills at 60 days' sight is quoted 2761 t) 27S per cent., and the pre mium on gold. 155§ to .i 57 per cent. Gold still continues to ar_ive in moderate quantities. The Duke of Rutland, the Earl of Derby, Lora Wharnclitfe, and two other gentlemen shot over Long shawe-muor, near Hathersage, on Tuesday and Wednesday, and had good Fport. Oa the first-named day the five guns produced 209 i brace of grouse. MR. WEEKE'S STATUE OF .TOTIN HUNTER, which was exhibited this year at the Royal Academy, has been placed in the Ifunterian Museum, College of Surgeons, Lincoln's-inn -fields. AN ENERGETIC AS WELL AS GIFTED ARTIST.— Mr. Leighton has in hand three pictures, which will probably appear at the next Royal Academy Exhibition. These are, 1, a subject from the Iliad, Helen going with two attendants to the Scan Gate of Troy, to satisfy her craving to see her husband and kinsfolk, before the pro posed duel between Menelaus and Paris ; this work com prises three figures, life size. No. 2 is from the Psalms, David sitting on the roof of his palace and gazing at the hills, " Oh, that I had wings like a dove," 67.0. No. 3is a genre subject, a woman and child, the latter holding a basket of cherries. This artist is engaged to paint the portrait of the Prince of Wales for the Fishmongers' Hall. full-length, with the garter and robes; also that of the Princess of Wales. Mr Leighton has departed for Florence, in order to assist at the erection of the beautiful monument of Mrs Browning, which was designed by himself, and which we recently described. This work will be finished in. October next. A despatch from Marseilles announces the death at Romo of Cardinal Savelli, ex-minister, and formerly g overnor of that oity, in his 72nd year. L;nant-Bey, Minister of Public Works to the Viceroy of Egypt, has left Marseilles for Alexandria on board the Afieris. JuHN TAYLOR, who has just ended his quiet and blameless life of liteiary thought, was, of oar day, the prudent and cautious man of extreme speculation I It he put forward a wild notion, it was done in a man ner which made it look like something to be can vassed. In his attempt to fix the character of Junius upon Sir Philip Francis, some persons think he has had a success; provisionally, Francis is the man in most minds, all the country through. His einropia, as the number of the Beast, will be voted as good as any of the others, His attempts to get deep theology out of Greek particles are shared by other scholars. His notion, to which he devoted much writing, of helping the currency by Exchequer bills of small amount not bearing interest, put into circulation as notes, and receivable in payment of taxes, is one which he suppo r t e d by ver y plausible ;reasons. H e lived a sedentary lif e , surroun d e d by his su bj e ctive creations. His highly religious feeling, own i n combination with other aids from his own temperament, gave reality to the mysterious parts of the orthodox system ; his mind was an Athanasian creed with the damnatory clauses entailer-Iliad. It is no marvel that m etrological speculation, one of the most seductive and mis guiding of all subjects to those who have a turn for it, should lead him to see the finger of God in the dimensions of the Pytatuid. The annals of this mystery show a suc cession of attempts which yield in number and vagary only to the t (paring of the circle.—Athertantm. The Prefect of the Nord has just founded an inA stitution called the " Society of Invalids of Labour," the object of which is to grant temporary or per manent assistance to the work.people of Lisle, who may have been disabled in the cserose of their calling. HAMBURG, Sept. 2.—The Russian Hereditary Grand Duke Nicholas Alexandrowitch has left to day for Copenhagen, where his betrothal with the Princess Maria Dagniar, second daughter of King Christian is to be celebrated. The prince is 21 years of age had the idioms 17. 100 4took stook stook 10 stock stock soe 201 100 100 stook nook stook 20 stock 50 100 stock stock stook